Ying Weiyang immediately pouted, looking extremely cute.
"It's no use pouting. Do you know how much the meat buns here cost?"
Although Xu Mu said so, he still got up and bought twenty-five meat buns at the window.
He gave five to Lin Yang, and placed the remaining twenty in front of Ying Weiyang.
This time, he wanted to see clearly how this woman could eat so fast.
When Ying Weiyang saw the buns, her eyes immediately lit up.
[Favorability +5]
She picked up a bun bigger than her fist and stuffed it all into her mouth at once.
Her cheeks at this moment looked like a squirrel's. She only chewed a few times and then swallowed it completely.
She took a bun in each hand and kept stuffing them into her mouth.
In a short while, the twenty buns were all gone.
Ying Weiyang patted her stomach and finally showed a satisfied expression.
"Okay, let's go."
Xu Mu stood up and led the two of them out of the Holy Battlefield together.
After walking out of the castle, the three of them came to the square.
Xu Mu sat on a bench and looked at Lin Yang in front of him. He took out two pills and handed them to him. "Take these."
Lin Yang stared at the two blue pills in shock, his eyes wide open. "These are... Qi Sea Pills?"
"That's right. Take them."
Xu Mu's tone was calm.
"This..."
Lin Yang hesitated for a moment, but still obeyed Xu Mu's words and swallowed them in one gulp.
In an instant, a force began to swell in his body.
He tightly clenched his fists and felt his meridians beginning to expand.
Whoosh!
His whole body was completely covered in red.
"I've advanced! I've reached the Grandmaster Realm!"
Lin Yang tightly clenched his fists. He became even more in awe of Xu Mu in front of him.
He knelt in front of Xu Mu, pressing his hands on the ground. "This kindness is like a new lease on life! Big Brother, I'm truly convinced of you!"
At this moment, he was thinking that if he were still the old him and their positions were reversed, whether he could be as magnanimous as Xu Mu.
He thought it was impossible.
Throughout the world, Lin Yang had never really admired anyone, but now, there was one.
"Get up."
Xu Mu took out a spatial ring from his body and gave it to Lin Yang. "There are a thousand catties of spiritual stones in here. Take it."
Lin Yang took the ring and checked. It was almost filled with spiritual stones. "Does Big Brother have any instructions?"
"Very simple. Go to the Holy Battlefield in the Northern Underworld Inner Realm to participate in the competitions. While earning spiritual stones, try your best to improve your strength for me."
Xu Mu said to Lin Yang, "In the future, we'll split all the spiritual stones you earn fifty - fifty."
"Okay!" Lin Yang nodded. "I definitely won't let you down!"
After seeing Lin Yang off, Xu Mu looked at Ying Weiyang beside him. "Come with me. We have other things to do."
Ying Weiyang noticed that Xu Mu left without even looking back, not caring at all whether she was following or not.
She looked at Xu Mu in the distance and immediately ran in the opposite direction.
After running for about a dozen seconds, she turned back and found that Xu Mu didn't chase after her. Instead, he continued walking into the distance.
After seeing this, she caught up with Xu Mu again.
Xu Mu didn't look back, but his perception could see clearly.
Just now, he saw Ying Weiyang running away, but he didn't chase.
There were two reasons. First, naturally, she wasn't the female lead. Xu Mu didn't need to find ways to keep her by his side.
Although her destiny level was good, the main reason Xu Mu targeted the female leads was to prevent them from interacting with the male lead, thus slowing down the male lead's development.
Second, the purpose of his rescue was to make the other person owe him a favor.
Even if she ran away, this favor would surely still be there.
However, Xu Mu didn't expect that she would come back.
After Ying Weiyang caught up with Xu Mu, she tilted her head and looked at Xu Mu's profile.
"Why did you come back? Weren't you trying to run away just now?"
Xu Mu looked at Ying Weiyang and asked, "Don't pretend. I know you're not mute."
"Huh?"
Ying Weiyang made a sound and showed a confused expression.
"I'm a doctor. Most mute people are deaf because they can't hear sounds, so they can't imitate them. But you can hear. As for those who become mute later, most of them have brain injuries, but there's no injury to your head."
Xu Mu pointed at Ying Weiyang's hand. "When you first fell, I caught your wrist. I was taking your pulse at that time."
"You're so amazing."
Ying Weiyang started to speak. Her voice also carried a childish tone. "Then why can't it be a problem with my throat and vocal cords?"
"The probability is very low, especially considering how much you can eat. Your throat should be fine."
Xu Mu said with a smile.
"I'm not a glutton. I can quickly decompose food to provide energy for my body."
Ying Weiyang rolled up the sleeves of her dress, revealing her slender arms. "Look, don't I look better than before when I was just skin and bones? If it were someone else, it would take at least ten days or half a month to recover."
"Then what race are you?"
Xu Mu asked deliberately, pretending to be confused.
He definitely couldn't name it. If she knew that Xu Mu was aware of her race,
this rescue would seem overly deliberate.
"I can't remember."
Ying Weiyang shook her head. "I really have amnesia. I can't remember anything from before."
"You're still lying to me at this time."
Xu Mu grabbed Ying Weiyang's wrist again and carefully felt it. He found that there was indeed no injury.
"I really didn't lie to you. I really can't remember anything from before."
Ying Weiyang raised her head, looking very serious.
Xu Mu frowned slightly, then opened the system to check her detailed information.
Sure enough, a message popped up.
[It is detected that the target's memory has been removed. 200 destiny points are required to repair it.]
"Damn it! It's really true."
Xu Mu was extremely shocked. Memory removal, what kind of heaven - defying ability was this?
No wonder she was the descendant of the dragon race. The attacks she suffered were different.
However, Xu Mu didn't plan to repair her memory immediately.
Ying Weiyang continued to ask, "You spent money to buy me. Why aren't you afraid that I'll run away?"
"There are only two reasons for me to save you. First, you're very beautiful, exactly to my taste."
Xu Mu looked at Ying Weiyang seriously. "Second, I saw that you were too weak. I didn't want a woman like you to die."
"You... What are you talking nonsense about?"
Ying Weiyang didn't expect that Xu Mu's reason for saving her was so superficial.
However, she was still quite pleased. Any woman would be happy to be praised as beautiful.
[Favorability +5]
"I'm telling the truth. My only purpose is to save you. I don't want this flower that hasn't fully blossomed to wither. As for whether you stay by my side, I don't care."
Xu Mu's tone was calm, and there was a unique sense of depth on his face.
Hearing this, Ying Weiyang felt her heart start to race. Could this man really be telling the truth?
Thinking carefully, when she pretended to run away just now, he really didn't try to keep her.
"After all, you bought me. I'm quite an honest person."
Ying Weiyang folded her arms and said lightly. "I'll follow you for now."
"Then what can you do?"
Xu Mu asked with a smile.

his freshman year, Su Bai accidentally bound the "Indulgence Tycoon System." 【Sleeping in? Reward: +$1,000】 【Spent $288 at a street barbecue stall? Cashback: +$2,880】 【Dropped $14,396 on in-game skins? Special reward unlocked: A brand-new Porsche Panamera!】 Luxury cars, penthouses, corporate shares, financial empires… College life was all about living freely and doing whatever he pleased! … When the adorably naive academic genius faced family medical bills and financial struggles, Su Bai waved his hand dismissively: "Your future is on me." "Wuwu~ Big Brother is so good to me! I’ll become a scientist to repay you!" When the genius girl got bullied by a shady professor? Su Bai casually dropped a billion-dollar investment, forcing the university to grovel and beg for her return. A company’s funding chain collapsing? Su Bai smirked—cash was the one thing he’d never run out of. Years later, when people traced the rise of the AI prodigy beauty, who was the man behind her success? Not just that—Su Bai also became the tsundere campus belle’s unattainable dream, the contrast senior’s daily necessity, and the beautiful counselor’s emotional anchor…

d intelligence to keep the plot moving, and sometimes even the protagonists are forced into absurdly dumb decisions. Why does the A-list celebrity heroine in urban romance novels ditch the top-tier movie star and become a lovestruck fool for a pockmarked male lead? Why do the leads in historical tragedy novels keep dancing between love and death, only for the blind healer to end up suffering the most? And Gu Wei never expected that after finally landing a villain role to stir up trouble, she’d pick the wrong gender! No choice now—she’ll just have to crush the protagonists as a girl!

e bizarre and supernatural had descended. The previous emperor was a thoroughgoing tyrant; no longer satisfied with human women, he had set his sights on a stunningly beautiful supernatural entity. He met his end in his bedchamber, drained of all his vital essence. As the legitimate eldest son and crown prince, Wang Hao was thus hastily enthroned, becoming the young emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty. No sooner had he awakened the "Imperial Sign-In Intelligence System" than he was assassinated by a Son of Destiny—a classic villain's opening. The Great Zhou, ravaged by the former emperor's excesses, was in national decline. The great families within its borders harbored their own treacherous schemes, martial sects began to defy the imperial court's decrees, and border armies, their pay and provisions in arrears, grumbled incessantly against the central government. Fortunately, the central capital was still held secure by the half-million Imperial Guards and fifty thousand Imperial Forest Army who obeyed the court's orders, along with the royal family's hidden reserves of power, barely managing to suppress the realm. As the Great Zhou's finances worsened and supernatural activities grew ever more frequent, the court sat atop a volcano. Ambitious plotters everywhere dreamed of overthrowing the dynasty, and even some reclusive ancient powers emerged, attempting to sway the tides of the world. At the first grand court assembly, the civil and military officials nearly came to blows, fighting tooth and nail over the allocation of fifty million taels of silver from the summer tax revenues. The spectacle opened Wang Hao's eyes—the Great Zhou's bureaucracy was not only corrupt but also martially proficient, a cabinet of all-rounders. Some officials even had the audacity to suggest the emperor release funds from the imperial privy purse to address the emergency. Wang Hao suddenly felt weary. Let it all burn.

to panic—he has a system. As long as an investment target dies, he can claim a reward. And since he is immortal, the one thing he has plenty of is time. ... Countless years later. “Immortal Emperor of Longevity? I invested in him.” “Supreme Celestial Venerable? I invested in him.” “Undying Empress? I invested in her.” “...” “Heh. Once they’ve all died, even the Heavenly Dao will have to kneel and call me Dad.”